General Debate 6 January 2012

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Longknives

Words fail me….

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6219744/Ridiculous-and-regal-kids-names-rejected
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January 6, 2012 8:24am
iMP

How insulting for transgenders to claim gay drag queens (men in womens’ clothing) are not REAL women. I am offended!

I’m a Libra, will I be banned?
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January 6, 2012 8:26am
hj

Racial attacks
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/deputy-mayor-attacked-amid-racism-claims-4674725

“Racism is driving some of it. It’s the Black Power versus white supremacist-type stuff,” he said.
The type of indoctrination Maori are getting has got to bare some fruit?
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January 6, 2012 8:46am
Yoza

That is quite a list of banned names, Longknives. No doubt if Prince (the artist formerly known as ‘The Artist Formerly Known As Prince’) turned up to perform in New Zealand we would have Internal affairs down at the air port demanding he change his name for the duration of his performing schedule.
( http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6219744/Ridiculous-and-regal-kids-names-rejected )

I am sure that those who treasure liberty and freedom of choice must be appalled with the draconian extremes taken by Internal Affairs. Lucifer? How do they justify that one?
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January 6, 2012 9:20am
Fletch

I see that Obama is abusing his power again and appointing people (more Czars) in what he says is a recess – although there was no recess and he knows it.

The purported “recess” appointment enraged conservatives because the Senate isn’t even in recess. Senators never passed a resolution to adjourn, meaning it is officially still in session. That didn’t dissuade Obama, however. Now the president is seeking to use the publicity to raise money for his re-election campaign.

“We can’t afford to continue allowing Wall Street to write its own rules. But today’s action by the President is already coming under partisan attack, which we expect to intensify in the days to come,” wrote James Kvaal, national policy director at Obama for America, in Wednesday night’s email.
The fundraising pitch was disguised as a petition to supporters. Only when recipients click on the link to “stand with President Obama and Richard Cordray” and sign the petition are they taken to a fundraising page with a form to donate up to $2,500 to Obama.

Obama ignored 100-plus years of precedent on recess appointments when he tapped Cordray as the new consumer czar. He also appointed three members of National Labor Relations Board at the behest of Big Labor.

Both moves were immediately criticized. The Heritage Foundation’s Todd Gaziano called it a “tyrannical abuse of power.” He added: “The House of Representatives did not consent to a Senate recess of more than three days at the end of last year, and so the Senate—consistent with the requirements of the Constitution—is having pro forma sessions every few days. In short, Congress is still in session.”
Obama also ignored the legal advice of his own Justice Department, which confirmed in 2010 that a recess would need to be longer than three days for the president to make an appointment.

– http://bit.ly/wT2UQg

Even liberals agree he is abusing power –
http://www.tnr.com/blog/timothy-noah/99229/cordrays-recess-appointment-sure-doesnt-look-constitutional-me

The man thinks he is king
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January 6, 2012 10:27am
Murray

I see some Aussies want to brand ANZAC. Going to look funny when the spell it without N and Z isn’t it?
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January 6, 2012 10:28am
Manolo

Only scum, the lowest of the low, will give their children those ridiculous names.
Undoubtly, we have our fair share of trash.
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January 6, 2012 10:30am
Manolo

On the subject of the quasi-imperial Messiah: http://cnsnews.com/blog/patrick-burke/mark-levin-we-have-constitutional-crisis
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January 6, 2012 10:33am
Manolo

Another one who is never shy: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/01/05/the_lawless_obama_regime
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January 6, 2012 10:44am
Jimbob

I turned the radio on this morning and Jim Renwick, head of NIWA, was being interviewed. He was asked about the current weather patterns, and all he could say with plenty of hums and ars, he didn’t know. He sounded like David Shearer, complete air head. How do these people get these jobs?
Also a good piece from Brian Leyland in this mornings Dim Post. He gives a good summary of the reality of the debate on AGW. It is just a matter of time before the theory of AGW is finally put to sleep.
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January 6, 2012 11:06am
Scott Chris

Yes some parents are obviously not fit to raise children. I hope the parents who tried to use these names are being monitored very closely by CYP.

Just waiting for Chuck Bird to pop up and prattle on about parents’ rights.
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January 6, 2012 11:06am
publicwatchdog

Good moaning Kiwibloggers!

Want to join the discussion on Pundit over whether the media should/can publish any comments made under Parliamentary privilege by Winston Peters on the two Johns’ ‘tea party tapes’?

Following is some of my considered opinion 🙂

http://pundit.co.nz/content/its-always-tea-time-and-weve-no-time-to-wash-the-things-between-whiles#comment-22326

In my considered opinion, after calling a media conference to cover the ‘tea party’ event, there is simply no way that John Key and/or John Banks should have been stupid enough to say anything during that time that they didn’t want the public to hear. They were almost literally ‘in a goldfish bowl’ with a compliant media outside – bristling with cameras – trying to record what was going on from outside the cafe.

Talk about an obedient, effectively ‘lap dog’ media!

Came when they were called, went outside when they were told, didn’t publish the transcript……….. ?

If I had been there as an independent member of the media, I wouldn’t have left the cafe. In my opinion, if John Banks and John Key wanted to have a ‘private’ conversation (ie: one they didn’t want the public to hear because it was politically sensitive) then they should have had that conversation in private, without first calling the media.

Why I am particularly grumpy about this, is because I stood as an Independent candidate in the Epsom electorate, campaigning against ‘white collar’ crime, corruption and ‘corporate welfare’.

I received effectively NO mainstream media coverage on my attempts to get ACT’s ‘ONE LAW FOR ALL’ equally applied to (former) ACT Party Leader, Don Brash, and ACT candidate for Epsom John Banks – both former Directors of Huljich Wealth Management (NZ) Ltd, who were never charged, let alone convicted, as was fellow former Director Peter Huljich. (ALL Directors equally signed Huljich Kiwisaver Prospectuses which contained untrue statements).

Members of Occupy Auckland marched with me, down Queen Street, to first the offices of the Finance Markets Authority (FMA) on 8th of November 2011, then the Serious Fraud Office on 14th of November 2011, with letters formally requesting that charges be laid against Don Brash and John Banks.

Both the CEO of the FMA Sean Hughes, and the Director of the SFO, Adam Feeley, in my considered opinion, failed to ‘do their jobs’.

Both declined to apply ‘ONE LAW FOR ALL’ to John Banks and Don Brash, as fellow former Directors of Huljich Wealth Management (NZ) Ltd.

Although mainstream media were notified, NOT ONE turned up on either occasion.

(Compare that with the 2008 election, when Rodney Hide made a complaint to the SFO against NZ First?)

Don’t you think that one or two members of the voting public might have been just a little bit interested in these actions?

Don’t you think that there might have been investors living in the Epsom electorate who could have been ‘bitten’ by some of the NZ 65 finance industry collapses since 2006, and might have supported ACT’s ‘ONE LAW FOR ALL’ being properly and equally applied to Don Brash and John Banks, who wanted to help run the country, but arguably couldn’t even properly run a Kiwisaver scheme?

Oh – silly me – OF COURSE mainstream media wouldn’t want to give publicity to this stuff – because our NZ democracy works according to the ‘golden rule’?

ie: Those who have the gold – make the rules, and we get the government that the majority of big business want us to have?

That public opinion can, and is, effectively be ‘steered’ by corporate mainstream media?

In 2008, the majority of big business didn’t want Winston Peters or NZ First to be part of any coalition government, and there was an unprecendented media campaign to discredit Winston Peters, so that NZ First would not reach the 5% party vote threshold.

It worked.

In 2011, the majority of big business wanted a John Key-led National Government back, primarily in order to achieve the proposed ‘partial privatisation’ programme.

Where was the mainstream media coverage exposing John Key’s Wall St ‘bank$ter’ background?

The FACT that when John Key worked for Merrill Lynch – he was HEAD OF DERIVATIVES – the collapse of the derivatives market being regarded as the cause of the current global financial ‘meltdown’ – so should take some responsibility for the ‘toxic’ financial products that he arguably helped to produce?

Is THAT the real reason for the attempted eviction of Occupy Auckland protestors at Aotea Square?

Arguably unlawful discrimination on the grounds of political opinion – because some of us were campaigning against the return of a National/ACT government, because they would best represent the interests of the NZ corporate and wealthy 1%? …

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Penny Bright

waterpressure@gmail.com
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January 6, 2012 11:09am
pollywog

Only scum, the lowest of the low, will give their children those ridiculous names.

eh…Liam and Ruby FFS

blerrrrrrrrrghhhhh !!!

talk about nanny state deciding what people can and can’t call their kids.

sometimes you just gotta laugh…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/samoa/8756608/Samoan-boy-named-after-famous-rugby-game.html
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January 6, 2012 11:15am
Falafulu Fisi

Penny Dim, what caused of the 1929 market crash? Look, there will be another crash at some stage in the future? You never learn or want to learn do you? It is not the derivative that’s the problem. How thick do you have to be to understand that? Derivative markets (options) has been around for over thousand years and why all of a sudden you blamed John Key for trading derivatives as if somehow he single handedly caused the recent financial crisis.
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January 6, 2012 11:20am
Mick Mac

Fala
that’s because Penny is dim or biased, probably both.
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January 6, 2012 11:29am
Chuck Bird

“Just waiting for Chuck Bird to pop up and prattle on about parents’ rights.”

In the case of some names like Lucifer or Satin I would agree with you.
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January 6, 2012 11:30am
Other_Andy

Trial by Media

From swaggering thugs to haunted suspects

The Mail accuses these men of killing.
If we are wrong, let them sue us

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10776914

The Mail is probably right.
However, what happens if the paper accuses you of something, you are innocent and you don’t have the money to sue?
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January 6, 2012 11:53am
F E Smith

Other_Andy,

Civil Legal Aid should cover it without much problem. If you are innocent then a defamation suit should be the next step in such a case, just like this one.
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January 6, 2012 11:59am
Yoza

“In the case of some names like Lucifer or Satin I would agree with you.”

Yes, I can understand the offence someone naming their child Satin, Velvet or Denim would cause. However, if it is acceptable that the state take such an intrusive role in such a trivial matter, then surely the state – under the pretext of defending the welfare of the child and in its guise as the omnipotent nanny – should direct power companies to heavily discount power charges to homes in which children are domiciled.
I am guessing the crocodile tears being shed here for the harm caused by a tragic naming process would not extend to any tangible activity which would have a measurably positive impact on the well-being of our most defenceless citizens.
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January 6, 2012 12:00pm
pollywog

Woah Yoza… that’s far to reasoned an argument.

you’ll have to dumb it down heaps for the sac of nutjobs hanging round here.
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January 6, 2012 12:22pm
Other_Andy

Wharfies make counter offer in ports dispute

Wharfies have put a counter offer to Ports of Auckland bosses as more industrial action looms in the ongoing waterfront dispute.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/6221587/Wharfies-make-counter-offer-in-ports-dispute

Why does POE have a management team?
It sounds like the union is running the POE.
Do they own the POE?
Why not sell the POA to the union and then they can run it the way they want it without interference from ‘management’. This will also solve Johnny’s gripe (See letter in the NZ Herald this morning) as he can then become the manager and solve all those ‘pay equity’ problems.
Come on ‘know it all’ Maritime Union, buy the place and show us how it works when you are in charge.
Or does it only work when you use other peoples’ money and property?
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January 6, 2012 12:40pm
wat dabney

Lucifer/Satan is the hero in the Bible. He stands up to the evil monster Yahweh, whose thirst for killing and butchering men, women and children knows no bounds.

Who could object to naming their son after a hero?
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January 6, 2012 12:40pm
Falafulu Fisi

To interested technologists, here is a recent technology R&D which has, potential application in telecommunication, internet signal routing and optical computing and more.

Bulging fibre excels at storing light
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January 6, 2012 12:43pm
Other_Andy

12.40
POE = POA
(Got Power over Ethernet on the brain.)
No edit………
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January 6, 2012 12:46pm
wat dabney

Yoza,

“if it is acceptable that the state take such an intrusive role in such a trivial matter, then surely the state – under the pretext of defending the welfare of the child and in its guise as the omnipotent nanny – should direct power companies to heavily discount power charges to homes in which children are domiciled.”

The state already has intervened in the power market: it artificially raised prices in a cynical revenue collection grab, hitting the poorest families hardest. Something that simply could not have happened in a competitive free market.

Polly and other statists here always seem to imagine that their precious state will use its powers of legalised coercion in ways that they prescribe. Just this week Polly was complaining about the bailout of the banks, yet that is just the other side of the coin: a state powerful enough to subsidise the power bills of families with children is also powerful enough to bail out wealthy bankers. And guess what, the wealthy bankers have more influence.

Hence my right-wing position that the state should not have such powers, since they have nothing to do with morality and everything to do with benefiting organised power over the rest of us.
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January 6, 2012 1:02pm
Yvette

Penny –

1]
If the media had not vacated the café as requested, but remained in a public place [and purchased coffees or tea], the private conversation would not have taken place.
By leaving they were acceding the Johns’ right to privacy.

2]
Regarding your own perception that [former] ACT Party Leader, Don Brash, and ACT candidate for Epsom John Banks – both former Directors of Huljich Wealth Management (NZ) Ltd – have broken the law, you should lay a complaint with the Police, as normal people do in reporting crime.
If the Police do not act you can the take the matter to the Ombudsman, I understand, but may be corrected on that.
Try the simplest most obvious approach first.
Have you done that?
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January 6, 2012 1:19pm
publicwatchdog

Just published these comments on Winston Peters facebook page – he’s asked for a discussion on the NZ Food Bill:

“In contrast, deaths in 1998 (the last year of detailed official statistics available) caused by adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs killed 1524 New Zealanders and deaths associated with medical injury (mistakes by doctors and medical staff) killed 4222 New Zealanders.”

( http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0610/S00037.htm)

By contrast – do you know how many REPORTED DEATHS there were from food-bourne illnesses in 2009? SIX!

http://www.foodsafety.govt.nz/elibrary/industry/economic-cost-foodborne-disease/foodborne-disease.pdf

Table 1: Notified and estimated incident cases of foodborne disease in New Zealand, 2009
Disease
Enumeration of cases
Campylo-bacteriosis
Salmon-ellosis
Noro-virus
Yersin-iosis
STEC

Reported deaths
0
1
0
0
1
4
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So! Where’s the fire? Spot the difference!

Nearly 6000 deaths in 1998 caused by caused by adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs and deaths associated with medical injury (mistakes by doctors and medical staff) vs SIX reported deaths from food-bourne illnesses in 2009 and it’s FOOD safety that we’re tightening up?????

Where’s the crisis for public health? FOOD safety or PATIENT safety?

(Where are the current statistics for ‘death by (approved/’legal’ drugs or doctors’? )

Currently the NZ central govt health spend is $13 BILLION.
Spent on a health systen focussed on SICKNESS – not WELLNESS?

How much of that $13 BILLION gets spent on DRUGS?

How much money could be saved by focussing health spending on WELLNESS?
Fighting poverty so families could afford nutritious food, decent housing?

Assisting initiatives like community gardens – so that that people could grow their own food? But that wouldn’t serve the intersts of the agri-food or BIG PHARMA corporations – would it?

So what’s REALLY behind the NZ Food Bill and whose interests are being served?

Penny Bright
waterpressure@gmail.com
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January 6, 2012 1:47pm
publicwatchdog

Why yes Yvette – I have made a formal complaint to the NZ Police.

“23 December 2011

Auckland District Commander
SuperIntendent George Fraser

URGENT ‘OPEN LETTER’ TO AUCKLAND DISTRICT COMMANDER SUPERINTENDENT GEORGE FRASER – “PLEASE APPLY ‘ONE LAW FOR ALL’ AND CHARGE JOHN BANKS AND DON BRASH AS FORMER FELLOW DIRECTORS OF HULJICH WEALTH MANAGEMENT (NZ) LTD.

Dear SuperIntendent George Fraser,

I hereby formally request that you take all necessary steps to ensure that the New Zealand Police apply ‘ONE LAW FOR ALL’ and lay appropriate charges against former Directors of Huljich Wealth Management (NZ) Ltd, John Banks and Don Brash, as were laid against former fellow Director of Huljich Wealth Management (NZ) Ltd, Peter Huljich, who has been convicted and recently sentenced for offences under the Securities Act 1978.

I have personally requested this action from both the CEO of the Finance Markets Authority, Sean Hughes, and the Director of the Serious Fraud Office – Adam Feeley.

Both have refused to arguably ‘do their jobs’.

The reasons supporting my request for Police action on this matter, as the same as those provided in the following:

”

OPEN LETTER / REQUEST TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE SERIOUS FRAUD OFFICE, ADAM FEELEY:

FOR THE SAME CRIMINAL CHARGES TO BE FILED AGAINST DONALD THOMAS BRASH AND JOHN ARCHIBALD BANKS AS WERE AGAINST THE FORMER FELLOW DIRECTOR OF HULJICH WEALTH MANAGEMENT PETER KARL CHRISTOPHER HULJICH.”

(It is my considered opinion, as a named Respondent in the Auckland Council v Aotea Square Occupiers case – that the real reason behind the attempted eviction of peaceful protestors is unlawful discrimination on the grounds of political opinion, and has been politically motivated, arguably at the highest levels, because we have been effectively ‘whistle-blowing’ against ‘white collar’ crime and corruption in New Zealand.)

Please be advised of the following background details:

“14 November 2011

Independent Candidate for Epsom, Penny Bright, will be today at 3pm, hand-delivering a letter to the Director of the NZ Serious Fraud Office (SFO), formally requesting that the same criminal charges be filed against fellow former Directors of Huljich Wealth Management Don Brash and John Banks, as were against Peter Huljich.

PROTEST: TO DELIVER FORMAL REQUEST FOR SFO TO APPLY SAME LAW TO DON BRASH AND JOHN BANKS AS FELLOW FORMER DIRECTORS OF HULJICH WEALTH MANAGEMENT (NZ) LTD:

TODAY: MONDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2011
LEAVING AOTEA SQUARE 2.30PM
ARRIVING OUTSIDE SERIOUS FRAUD OFFICE 3PM
ADDRESS: SERIOUS FRAUD OFFICE, LEVEL 6, 21 QUEEN ST, AUCKLAND CITY.

‘ONE LAW FOR ALL’?

The CEO of the Finance Markets Authority – Sean Hughes has stated in an email dated 13 November 2011:

“FMA’s position is unchanged from that expressed in my email to you on 28 September 2011. I am satisfied that the position of both Mr Banks and Dr Brash was carefully considered by the Securities Commission and that competent advice was received in relation to the entities or persons against whom charges ought to be brought. Unless you have new information or evidence to bring to light which was not previously considered by the Securities Commission, FMA does not consider you have any basis on which to suggest it should bring proceedings against either Mr Banks or Dr Brash in relation to Huljich Wealth Management.”

Is this a form of corrupt practice, this failure of the CEO of the Finance Markets Authority to equally apply the same law – albeit to the former Leader of the National party, Don Brash and former National Government Minister of Police – John Banks?

(Please see attached letter)

Penny Bright

Independent Candidate for Epsom

Campaigning against ‘white collar’ CRIME, CORRUPTION (and its root cause – PRIVATISATION) and CORPORATE WELFARE.”
______________________________________________________________________________________________________

You can see a copy of the letter to the SFO on http://www.pennybright4epsom.org.nz

Hope that answers your question Yvette?

Thank you for asking.

Kind regards,

Penny Bright
waterpressure@gmail.com
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January 6, 2012 1:53pm
cha

Rather than do his own fact checking Fletch swallows another helping of stupidity.

Obama has made 29 recess appointments, George W. Bush 171, Bill Clinton 139, George H.W. Bush made 77 and Ronald Reagan made 243
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January 6, 2012 2:38pm
reid

“We’re saying within the 10 per cent lies all the fishhooks of casualisation.”

Andy further to your post this quote is from the Herald story, by the union guy.

So this is the nub of it. The unions won’t accept any casualisation at all and the management won’t agree to not have it.

Obviously as a conservative I don’t think this is any justification for the union position I’m simply making that hypothesis that this is the nub. Which means a total shut-down and lock-out may be the only option for the management, unless they give way on this.

Firstly if this is the case then I think all the unions and the lefty politicians who support them need to come clean to the public and admit this is what the central issue is and lay it out, for public debate. This is not a private issue between a union and an employer, the union itself has put this on the public table and the lefties and the unions need to let the public decide. If I were POA I’d be hiring a PR firm right now to put this message out.
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January 6, 2012 2:53pm
Yvette

Penny –
I trust you will inform us when you receive a reply from SuperIntendent George Fraser.

I wonder why you took the ‘Open Letter’ tell-the-whole-fucking-world approach, rather than simply ask for a date of expected response with the intention of pursuing it further under the Information Act, to compel a response, if one was not made?
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January 6, 2012 3:12pm
Other_Andy

@cha

And all those (Republican and Democrat) recess appointments were accepted.
The problem with the four appointments Obama made was that the Senate was not on recess.

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/01/05/even-obama-agrees-that-the-senate-was-not-in-recess/
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January 6, 2012 3:17pm
Chuck Bird

I am no prude. There are places on the West Coast where genuine nudists can discretely sunbath.
It sound’s like many at Ladies Bay are perverts. There is also a problem at Okura North Auckland where homosexuals strut around displaying themselves to each other as well as anyone having a beach walk. What is Len Brown going to do about these perverts?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10777012
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January 6, 2012 3:30pm
cha

As the article notes O-A, chutzpah!, and probably a little payback.
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January 6, 2012 3:35pm
reid

So Penny you’re saying despite the Crown Prosecutors looking into it they don’t understand the law because in your opinion a political order was given “at the highest levels” to evict the Akld Occupiers which therefore you conclude makes Brash and Banks liable to those charges?

Er.

I see.

Penny I think you’re risking public nuisance charges being laid against you. I really do. If I were I would cease and desist immediately lest you be arrested and thrown in jail for being a complete idiot. I suspect you will go through nevertheless but don’t be surprised if that happens one day.
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January 6, 2012 3:38pm
Other_Andy

@Cha

Yep.
Politics, dirty business..
So far a lot of hot air from those that say he has breached long standing protocol and the constitution.
Will they call him out on this one or will they back down (yet again)?
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January 6, 2012 3:53pm
Manolo

A vile theocracy at work: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/01/05/iran-clamps-down-on-web-blocking-sites-and-requiring-cameras-in-internet-cafes/
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January 6, 2012 4:28pm
publicwatchdog

You seem to be a bit confused about the issues ‘reid’?

(sigh)

As usual – I take FULL personal responsibility for my actions.

Some of us just don’t TALK about it – we actually DO something about it.

That’s the thing about ‘activists’.

We’re ‘active’?

You’re not a lawyer are you ‘reid’.

It shows.

I mean if it were unlawful to be an ‘idiot’ – then arguably with comments such as you have made above – you would have put yourself at risk?

(Meant of course in a caring way 🙂

Happy New Year!

Penny Bright
waterpressure@gmail.com
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January 6, 2012 4:37pm
cha

Heh!.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattcherette/25-people-who-just-googled-santorum-for-the-firs
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January 6, 2012 4:45pm
publicwatchdog

Yvette – I wasn’t requesting information from SuperIntendent George Fraser – I was requesting ACTION to be taken by Police which had not been taken by either CEO of the Finance Markets Authority, or the Director of the Serious Fraud Office, Adam Feeley.

There is a difference.

Do YOU Yvette, support ACT’s ‘ONE LAW FOR ALL’ equally applying to ACT MP John Banks and (former) ACT Party Leader Don Brash, as former Directors of Huljich Wealth Management (NZ) Ltd, who equally signed Huljich Kiwisaver Registered Prospectuses which contained untrue statements?

If not – why not?

Penny Bright
waterpressure@gmail.com
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January 6, 2012 4:46pm
plebe

Chuck it sounds like you have a lot of dicks prancing around up there in Auckland.(the rest of NZ knew that already)

Chuck Bird (1,941) Says:

January 6th, 2012 at 3:30 pm
I am no prude. There are places on the West Coast where genuine nudists can discretely sunbath.
It sound’s like many at Ladies Bay are perverts. There is also a problem at Okura North Auckland where homosexuals strut around displaying themselves to each other as well as anyone having a beach walk. What is Len Brown going to do about these perverts?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10777012
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January 6, 2012 4:52pm
Manolo

As usual – I take FULL personal responsibility for my actions.

The joke of 2012! Miss Dim is a world-class comedian.
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January 6, 2012 4:55pm
reid

As usual – I take FULL personal responsibility for my actions.

So Penny tell us, the tent you were staying in during the Akld Occupation. Are you going to pay your share of the damage your protest caused to the lawn and also to the critical waterproof membrane covering the carpark, if any?

Are you going to do that? Or does your sense of FULL personal responsibility not include such considerations?
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January 6, 2012 5:04pm
Chuck Bird

“Chuck it sounds like you have a lot of dicks prancing around up there in Auckland”

I live in the Waikato,Plebe
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January 6, 2012 5:37pm
Fletch

Tongue twister for today –

If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.
After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud.

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Fe0ffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

English Pronunciation by G. Nolst Trenité
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January 6, 2012 5:49pm
plebe

Chuck you live there,prancing dicks and the Waikato,i will not go there ,it involves cows(it seems its a northern thing)
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January 6, 2012 5:57pm
cha

#Fletch. A background to The Chaos.

http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html#introduction
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January 6, 2012 6:25pm
JamesS

Have you noticed how Penny Bright has yet to answer a question?

She emerges from her sewer to scream hysterically about the topic of the day; logic and reason were cast aside way back yonder, honey – (why let facts get in the way of females screaming hysterically?). When challenged to provide any evidence (about anything, ever) or to answer a question of any sort she is curiously absent. And silent.

Why does Farrar continue to allow her to post here?
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January 6, 2012 6:32pm
Yvette

Penny… Yvette – I wasn’t requesting information from SuperIntendent George Fraser – I was requesting ACTION to be taken by Police which had not been taken by either CEO of the Finance Markets Authority, or the Director of the Serious Fraud Office, Adam Feeley.

1]
If you have laid your FACTS formally with the Police you can then ask under the Official Information what action is to be taken. They are obliged to answer within a certain time frame. I don’t see what your problem is yet.
you only write to Auckland District Commander SuperIntendent George Fraser on 23 December 2011.
He might be on holiday.

2]
You aught to concentrate what is legal under New Zealand law. Forget your ACT’s ‘ONE LAW FOR ALL’ – it is a political slogan with no meaning as your continued solitary use of it indicates.

3]
And why are you regurgitating here in full what you are purportedly posting on Winston Peter’s Facebook. Do you no longer have a blog of your own?

4]
“She who seeks for applause from without has all her happiness in another’s keeping” – Oliver Goldsmith
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January 6, 2012 6:47pm
reid

Iran says all warships and military vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz have to apply to Iran for permission otherwise they will be stopped.

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9007270216

So lest some misunderstand, let’s all recognise this is in response to severe provocation including requiring countries to choose between the US and Iran if they trade with both.

That’s the state of play here, so let’s not anyone pretend this is an agressive action by Iran. It’s a provocative one, but it’s in response to all the other aggression we have seen take place in the last several years, lest anyone attempt to ignore or minimise those clear and present facts which really have happened, haven’t they.

But this is a major move. What the hell does Iran think the US Fifth Fleet is going to do? Apply to Tehran for permission? Of course they won’t and Iran knows that so what is it doing here apart from the obvious which is to ratchet up the clock a notch to cause a resolution to this be that a confrontation or a negotiated backdown, one of the two.

See as I’ve said for years, Iran reportedly has missiles capable of taking out an aircraft carrier through kinetic energy which can’t be stopped by known defensive systems and all they have to do is loiter in the mountains bordering the gulf and then bloom, fire and drop.

So let’s see what happens next. I can’t wait, although I wish the west wasn’t forcing the issue, this whole thing is totally unnecessary, in my view. It’s just a large part of the western public have been sucked into this fantasy that Iran is actually a threat because of look, you see, Hezbollah and what proper state does that, they say. This blindening program has been enormously successful, given the number of westerners who eagerly if ignorantly jump on the bandwagon.

Sad really, given the enormity of the diabolical reality which is nothing less than the war on terror is exactly like the war on drugs. Designed to be expensive, interminable and never ending but requiring vast networks of security and military infrastructure on a global scale. Why people don’t get that’s what’s behind all of this I don’t know. Perhaps they’re all waiting until it’s all been built or something. That must be it.

I don’t see what your problem is yet.

Her problem Yvette is she’s already received an answer she didn’t like so without evidence she imagines someone in the highest offices ordered the eviction of the occupiers which means Brash and Banks are guilty of some sort of fraud. This is here problem Yvette. She of course doesn’t see the minor flaw which is of course the unrelated nature of the connexion, but I know you do, straight away.
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January 6, 2012 7:02pm
Other_Andy

@reid

Are you a ‘Paulian’?
Apart from the country and the people, what do you think of the Iranian regime?
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January 6, 2012 7:44pm
nasska

Newspaper Headlines in the Year 2035

Castro finally dies at 112: Cuban cigars can now be imported legally but President Chelsea Clinton has banned all smoking.

Last remaining Fundamentalist Muslim Dies In The British Territory Of The Middle East (formerly known as Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon) .

35 Year Study: Diet And Exercise Is Key To Weight Loss.

Nursing Home: Bill Clinton Denies Allegations Of Affair With Head nurse

New Law Requires All Nail Clippers And Screwdrivers To Be Registered By January 2036.

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CIA Archives Opened: George W. Bush Was A Humanoid Robot Loosely Modeled On His Father

Britney Spears Comeback: Golden Oldies Concert

Exasperated Pope Gives Muslims The Finger

Trade Me Fees Have Reached 53% Of Purchase Price

J. K. Rowling Releases Harry Potter and the Divorce from Hell
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January 6, 2012 8:02pm
reid

Are you a ‘Paulian’?

You mean Ron Paul? Yes, if so. Not in everything but most things he says make sense monetary policy most of all. He’s revolutionary only because the nation long ago departed from the mainstream and no-one called it and now, his policies are the only rational ones, which sound radical to most ears. That’s the problem. I mean he’s probably the congressman with the longest experience specialising in monetary policy. In a monetary crisis which the GFC is, who else is better qualified. Forget everything else, it’s the economy, dummy, this election. It won’t be, Obama and the MSM will make it about other things and as I’ve said, I’m picking Obama will play the race card: if you don’t vote for him, you’re a racist. Let’s wait and see, but yes, Paul is the best of any of them, but he won’t get past the nomination, that won’t be allowed to happen.

what do you think of the Iranian regime?

I don’t think they’re as bad as the western media portrays them as but unfortunately in order to see what I see in them, you have to, I think, have a degree of understanding of what it is to be a spiritual person.

Iran is looked at by the Muslim world as the holder of the Holy Key. By that I mean they are seen as the purist Islamic state. Everyone in the ME knows Saudi for example is ruled by desert gypsies who got lucky, they don’t for example look up to people like Saudi at all, even if it does have Mecca in its territory. Understanding this is a critical factor in understanding Iran and also ME dynamics. This means in this context it’s an extremely telling move if the West attack it, let alone if Israel does with the West supporting it.

Most people don’t seem to understand this perhaps because they don’t understand religion is not about having a seething cauldron of hatred feeding in your belly 24/7/365 until one literally feels like exploding. To most religious people this never seems to happen. But many perhaps most people in the west don’t have that understanding and seem to believe that most if not all Muslims do in fact have this bubbling cauldron of scalding lava-hot rage just waiting to explode so they treat Iran rather like a powder keg. This is so not the case, it’s not funny, but nevertheless millions even billions really believe Iran and all other Muslim nations are really truly like this. Power of propaganda, you see.

So as a world we either treat Iran like we are now which is that it really is full of violent fanatics, or we treat it seriously and with good faith just like any other country, especially given its respected status in the Muslim world.

The fact the world is doing the precise opposite in what appears to me a not accidental but rather precisely engineered way, gives me the shits quite frankly Andy. For where this ends, I don’t know, but wherever it is, I don’t like any of the calculations.
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January 6, 2012 8:05pm
Nostalgia-NZ

Good post Reid.
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January 6, 2012 8:17pm
reid

CIA Archives Opened: George W. Bush Was A Humanoid Robot Loosely Modeled On His Father

nasska don’t you know all the Bush’s are shape-shifting lizards, not robots?

Crikey. Sorry, but you know, accuracy is important, even in humour.

Good post Reid.

I thought all my posts were good Nostalgia. Until now. Thanks though. 🙂
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January 6, 2012 8:20pm
Steve

The Natives showing how they embarass NZ again:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10777123&ref=rss
Must be my fault
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January 6, 2012 9:11pm
Fletch

cha, thanks. Interesting.
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January 6, 2012 9:32pm
Nostalgia-NZ

Steve 9.11

Your embarassment and dimwittedness is noted.
Congratulations.
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January 6, 2012 10:08pm
cha

#Fletch

A google translation (from Dutch) of Charivarius wiki page.

This too: http://www.roughdraft.org/JDS/JDS.ocon.jul97/0332.html
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January 6, 2012 10:14pm
reid

This is so cool. I wish I was brainy enough to work for DARPA. I bet if I did then building my giant laser cannon in the hills above Eastbourne wouldn’t be so bloody difficult:

According to Cornell scientists, it’d take a machine 18,600 miles long to produce a time mask that lasts a single second.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/time-hole/
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January 6, 2012 10:37pm
Manolo

Well said, Marco Rubio: http://www.scribd.com/doc/77352588/1-6-12-Obama-Debt-Ceiling-Letter-FINAL
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